US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble sees its fourth-quarter net loss more than double to $118.6m (£77m) as sales of its Nook ebooks and devices drop. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher John Blake has signed world rights to a new title about the life of Nelson Mandela [... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Porter Anderson takes in the week's online debates on the belief that big publishers' power is diminished, ebook royalties, Amazon Worlds, pay for writers and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes and Noble has not had an easy go of it. The brick-and-mortar stalwart has seen its revenues and profits steeply decline as we've entered the age of the ebook. In fact, profits haven't just shrunk; they've disappeared. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013, the company suffered a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines plans to publish two test issues of a new lifestyle magazine with celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz in the first quarter of 2014, the company said today.The company plans to distribute about 350,000 copies of the first issue to newsstands and another 450,000 to certain... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
German publishers will disappear from Google News on Aug. 1 unless they opt in to the service as Google seeks to comply with a new German law. But the publishers said on Monday that this is not good enough, they want a share in Google's revenue.The law will come into effect on Aug. 1 and gives... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jennie Bristow, associate fellow at the University of Kent, says grown-ups read children's books because they feel 'disenchanted with adult culture'. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Embattled chef Paula Deen has found an unlikely supporter in vampire novelist Anne Rice, who has gone on Facebook to defend the silver-haired (former) Food Network star.Embattled chef Paula Deen has found an unlikely supporter in vampire novelist Anne Rice, who has gone on Facebook to defend the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Limiting Kindle Worlds to the ebook form may cater the needs of licensors, but it is counter to the ethos, habits and desires of fanfiction writers and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two new novels from Pan Macmillan, including Peter James' new thriller Dead Man's Time,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A highly publicized racism scandal has already cost celebrity chef Paula Deen her Food Network contract. Will readers still buy her cookbooks? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sylvia Day's Entwined with You (Penguin), the third instalment in her Crossfire erotica... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Boy Scouts of America are cutting more than 30 positions from the staff of its two flagship magazines—Boy's Life and Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlesbridge Publishing and Random House Publisher Services have announced a multiyear sales and distribution partnership, effective January 1, 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The "Korea Times" compares the Seoul International Book Fair to Tokyo's International Book Fair, and finds it sorely lacking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Doug Ducate has announced his intention to step down as CEO of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) by the end of 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The app won’t die. Despite the recent flood of attention to responsive Web design, with its promise to provide users a consistent experience across devices, publishers—even the most progressive—remain committed to stand-alone mobile apps. Take BuzzFeed. The social news site would seem a likely... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Gardner has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for "Maggot Moon;" Levi Pinfold won the Kate Greenaway Medal, which awards excellence in illustration, for his picture book "Black Dog." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
US novelist Sarah J Maas will tour the UK for the first time this October. Maas is the author of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A visit to the Seoul Book Fair reveals publishers are still wary of ebooks and blame smart devices for the decline in reading, even as Korean culture has become hip abroad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]